This study examined general children's prejudice and social distance against children from multicultural families according to the experience of contact with children from multicultural families' children, and analyzed any difference of prejudice of m...
This study examined general children's prejudice and social distance against children from multicultural families according to the experience of contact with children from multicultural families' children, and analyzed any difference of prejudice of multicultural families' children and social distance according to the experience of contact, and tried to find out the reason of general children's prejudice and social distance against multicultural families' children. Object of study was 3rd~6th graders of elementary school with multicultural families' children in the same class, which was 204 students.
Resuming the result of this research shall be as following.
I identified the difference of prejudice and social distance according to general children's experience of contact with multicultural families' children in one way anova result. As a result, there was a significant difference between prejudice and social distance according to the number of multicultural families' children known, and the level of prejudice and social distance is the lowest when there are 5~6 and more than 7 children. With regard to the relationship duration, the longer the relationship continued, the lower the level of prejudice became, but it was not statistically meaningful, and it was found that the level of social distance meaningfully and statistically decreased. It was found that there was a meaningful difference in prejudice and sense of social distance according to the frequency of hanging out with children from multicultural families, and general children who hang out with multicultural family children once or twice a week showed the lowest level of prejudice and social distance. With regard to the contact experience of media, the more the number of contact, the lower the level of prejudice and social distance became. Lastly, with regard to the multicultural education, there were no statistically meaningful difference in both prejudice and social distance. However, prejudice from direct experience of contact and social distance had the higher effect than the indirect experience of contact through media. There was no effect of multicultural education. Therefore, it seems to be necessary for education to provide opportunity of contact experience. Accordingly, the difference in prejudice and social distance according to contact experience, which is the aim of this study, has been partially verified and the contact experiences of children from general families reduce the level of prejudice and social distance, so the positive awareness toward children from multiculatural families could be formed. So, in the short term, this can help the adaptation of children from multiculatural families and in the long term, it can play a positive role in desirably settling down multicultural society.